Heat-engine.



V. FIORIO.

HEAT ENGINE.

APPLICATION nun) JULY 1, 1914.

1,1 15,524. Patented Nov. 3, 1914.

" f ,vinsrnro rronro, or Team, ITALY.

Application.filed. July 1, 1914. Serial No. 848,461.

To all whom it may concern Be it known thatI, VIRGINIO FIoRIo, a subject or the KingofItaly, residing at and whose postal address is 7 Oorso Dante, Turin, It'aly,'"have invented certain new and of gravity by employing the difference of temperature between the water (or another liquid) and the upper air (or another gas)- The apparatus consists of two Vessels arranged at the same distance from a horizon tal axle and connected together by means of a tube secured to said axle. These tight closed vessels are connected, by means of suitable tubes, with two hollow bodies, preferably oflenticular shape, placed at the same distance from the same horizontal axle and perpendicular to the connectingtube of'the two vessels. The vertical plane of the said lenticular bodies is parallel to the plane of the vessels but at such a distance therefrom to allow (the horizontal axle being mounted on suitable bearings and perpendicular to the edge of the wall of a tank containing the water or other liquid) the lenticular bodies to revolve successively and alternatively in the water and in the air and the vessels to revolve freely and continually in the air. One of said vessels is'filled almost to the'rim with a liquid preferably somewhat volatile; and the vacuum is produced in the interior of the apparatus. It will be seen that, when one of the two lenticular bodies passes, from the air into the water (while the other lenticular body leaves. the water to pass into the air), the temperature of the vapors of the liquid contained in the first lenticular body will sink owing to the lowertemperature of the water: the contraction of said vapors will cause all the liquid contained in the vessel connected with the other lenticular body to be drawn into the vessel connected with the lenticular body plunged in the water. The liquid thus conveyed in one of the vessels will act by its own weight causing the Whole apparatus to turn on its Specification of Letters Patent.

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HEAT-ENGINE.

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axle; as soonlas'the said'vessel has reached its lowest pos1t1on,the other lenticular body,

i which has become heated duringiits rotation in the air,will plunge into the water from whichtheother:lenticular body will come out at the same. time) causing, in the same manner, as before described, the liquid to :be. 1

transferred up into the vessel connected f therewith and effecting the rotation, by force of gravity,

in thesame direction asbeforei Thus I will obtain. acontinuous rotation .of the apparatus produced by the force of,

gravity ofthe liquid, which at eachrotationof-l enters'su'ecessively that of the two vessels which is in the highest position."

, This apparatus isshownby way of ex ample in the annexed drawing. Figure l is a perspective view thereof showing the princlple on which it works. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view of a modified part of the apparatus by which a more regular and even work is effected.

1 and 1 indicate the vessels (havingv the form of balls in the drawing), which are connected together by means of the tube 2; the vessel 1 is in communication, by means of the tube 3, with the lenticular body 4, and the vessel 1 is connected, through the tube 3, with th lenticular body 1'.

In Fig.1 it is assumed that the lenticular bodya has'already effected half a rotation in the water and has caused all the liquid (suitably ether) sel 1' to pass into the vessel 1 communicating therewith. 'This liquid, acting by gravity, will cause the apparatus to rotate in the direction of the arrow about its horizontal axle 5; the lmmersion of the lenticularbody 4 in'the liquid will produce in the same before contained in the vesmanner the passage of allthe, liquid into i the vessel 1 and its consequent action of gravity effecting the rotation of the appa ratus in the same direction. 7

' In order to'obtain a regular and even motion it'is necessary to arrange in series a certainnumber ofsaid apparatus (Fig.2)

slightly out of phase one to another and c0n-- nected together in any suitable manner, for instance by means of ropes 6 wound on pulleys keyedon the axles 5; on each of'said' axles two pulleys 7 and 8 will be secured, one of which-as 7 receives the motion from thepreceding apparatus while the other 8 transmits the same to the next one. On each axle 5 any number of pairs of vessels 1, 1 and lenticular bodies 4, 4: may be ar 2 i,ii5,524

ranged; moreover the connecting tubes 2,

3, 3 may be secured to any point ofthe vessels l, 1 and lenticular bodies 4, 4: without departing rrom' the principle of this invention.

What I claim is:

1. A heat engine, comprising a pair of closed communicating vessels arranged to revolve about an axis at substantially the same distance therefrom, oppositely disposed hollow bodiescommunicating with said vessels adapted to revolve about said axis in avera tic-al'plane parallel to the plane of the vessels said vessels containing a volatile liquid,

and means to automatically and alternately cool said bodies, for the purpose specified.

2; In an apparatus for collecting the energy of the force of gravity by employing the difi eren'ce of temperature between the water (or other liquid) andthe atmospheric air, a number of pairs of tight closed vessels arranged at opposite sides and atthe same distance from a horizontal axle and communicating together and with pairs of hollow bodies, preferably of lenticular form, disposed also at opposite sides and perpendicularly to the vessels in a vertical plane parallel with but at a certain distance from the plane containing the said vessels; these latter containing a liquid easily volatile and the vacuum b'eing produced in the interior ofthe Whole apparatus; the apparatus being mounted on bearings andhaving its axle on the edge of the Wall. of atank containing the wateror other liquidso that the lenticular bodies rotatealternatively in the water (or other liquid) and in the air, while the vessels rotate continually in the air.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, Lhave signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, VIBGINIO r 'oino.

Witnesses; I

LIZFERUOGIO YnooBAoor, MARIA YCARDILLO.

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